BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

Who isn’t watching the current 25th Season of ABC’s The Bachelor, one of the longest running Reality TV Shows in history. Who better than to help us break it all down than someone who has lived it first hand. This is the Behind The Velvet Rope Podcast after all and that is how we do it, first hand all day, every day. Enter Kendall Long, former Bachelor Season 22 and Bachelor in Paradise Season 5 c...

The Real Housewives of Jersey’s Ashley Cairney steps Behind The Rope. Checking in from her home in the Channel Islands, Ashley is here to chat about it all now that the first season of Jersey has come to an end. We start with a little chat about how she was cast, what filming was like and how accurate, or inaccurate, she finds her edit to be now that the show has aired. Ashley fills us in on House...

Meredith and Brooks Marks step Behind The Rope. Yes, in their first EVER Mother and Son Marks chat, Meredith and Brooks stop by to discuss all that has been going on this freshman season on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake. We chat with Meredith and Brooks about how they were cast, what filming was like, what reservations they had about joining the franchise, and how life has changed since RHOSLC...

Trista Sutter, THE Original Bachelorette, Steps Behind The Rope. Let us start at the beginning. Trista recalls what it was like when she applied to a not yet known TV show that promised the possibility of meeting the love of your life. Ya right, she thought. How likely is it for someone to find love on TV? With little known Reality TV to compare it to (The Real World and Survivor were two of the o...

Bling Empire’s Andrew Gray steps back Behind The Rope (Part I of our chat aired February 9th, 2021. If you haven't checked it out - feel free to do so.) Bling Empire is THE hottest show of the moment and we are LIVING for it. Andrew chats about how he got involved with Netflix’s break out 2021 hit show about a group of very wealthy, and we mean very very wealthy, Asian “friends” living in Los Ange...

Hot off her recent Below Deck appearance, Jackie Siegel steps Behind The Rope. Yes, that Jackie Siegel. Jackie Siegel from the infamous, before its time, Reality Documentary “The Queen of Versailles”. Checking in from her home in Florida, we chat with Jackie about her “rags to riches” story of getting and falling in love with her now husband David. That “rags to riches” story included their decisi...

Are you a huge Real Housewives fan? Are you watching Oxygen’s “Killer Motive”? If so, do you love it as much as we do here Behind The Rope? If not, you must check it out. Just like you, yes you faithful listeners of ‘Behind The Velvet Rope”, cannot look away from the train wrecks that you witness each week on your favorite Bravo shows, you will not believe your eyes when you watch “Killer Motive”....

Patti Stanger, our favorite Matchmaker, is back for a third time to, what else, chat about all things Celebrity, Real Housewives and Love. Who better than to break it all down for us than our very own Love Doctor, Miss Patricia Stanger, The Millionaire Matchmaker herself. We start the only place we know how to, The Real Housewives. Patti weighs in on many unconventional Housewives’ couples - how t...

Isaac Mizrahi steps Behind The Rope. Yes, THAT Isaac Mizrahi. Living Legend, Fashion Icon Isaac Mizrahi. Nothing more needs to be said! However, did you know Isaac can also sing and is quite the comedian? Isaac takes time out of his busy day to chat about his “Isaac at Cafe Carlyle” virtual concert series, the third of which premieres tomorrow night (on BroadwayWorld Streaming Platform) with speci...

RHONY’s Favorite “Friend Of” Elyse Slaine, sorry Barbara Kavovit, is back for an unprecedented Fifth Time!!! We just cannot get enough of our friend, not “friend of”, Elyse. We catch up with Elyse to see how life has been on the Upper East Side and in Southhampton for Ramona’s Ex-BFF. Elyse fills us in on her day job, Cryptocurrency Trading, no we do not understand it any better than the last four...

Bling Empire’s Andrew Gray steps Behind The Rope. Bling Empire is THE hottest show of the moment and we are LIVING for it. Andrew chats about how he got involved with Netflix’s break out 2021 hit show about a group of very wealthy, and we mean very very wealthy, Asian “friends” living in Los Angeles and what filming was like. Andrew is very forthcoming about his “role” as the shows “villain” (his...

Chaz Dean steps Behind The Rope. Checking in from the Hollywood Hills home he shares with his three Labradors, Chaz is here to tell it all. First things first, Chaz fills us in on his journey from his early days of working at a LA Salon to eventually purchasing that salon, developing WEN hair care products, taking over QVC and, of course, those infamous WEN infomercials - think Alyssa Milano and B...

Who isn’t watching the current 25th Season of ABC’s The Bachelor, one of the longest running Reality TV Shows in history. Who better than to help us break it all down than someone who has lived it first hand. This is the Behind The Velvet Rope Podcast after all and that is how we do it, first hand all day, every day. Enter Lacey Mark, former Bachelor Season 21 and Bachelor in Paradise Season 4 con...

Lisa Barlow, hot off the RHOSL finale, steps Behind The Rope (with special guest appearance by John Barlow). The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s Lisa Barlow and we could not be more excited to chat with her about this new stellar addition to the franchise. After a brief background on Lisa, where she grew up, how she ended up in Salt Lake, where she met husband John Barlow, and all things Vida...

Randall Emmett steps back Behind The Rope. Back in a simpler time, before the exciting news of Randall and Lala’s pregnancy announcement, before the cast changes on Vanderpump Rules, back when all our favorite VanderKids were still a part of the gang, before Scheana and Jax and who knows who next was with child, we sat down with Randall for a special two part chat (Part I aired June 24th 220. Feel...

Flipping Out’s Megan Weaver steps Behind The Rope. Checking in from her bed, no really Megan is in bed, in The Valley, Megan is here to tell it all. Owning her Valley Girl status, Megan takes us back to the beginning, her first job was working as a Production Assistant for Steven Spielberg. She worked on them all, Jurassic Park, Men in Black, Twister, Schindler’s List and saw them all Antonio Band...

Welcome back Trinity Taylor (Part I of our sit down with Trinity Taylor aired November 19th, 2020. If you haven’t checked it out check yet, feel free to do so now). Trinity chats more about what filming Drag Race was like, the competitions, the clothes, and the judges. Trinity discusses the differences between Season 9 and All Stars Season 4 - experience, money, age - and how that affected the com...

Lady Bunny Steps back Behind The Rope (for everyone who is wondering, our Part I sit down chat with Bunny aired December 17th, 2020. Feel free to check it out). Yes, THAT Lady Bunny. Drag Queen Extraordinaire, NYC Nightlife Legend, Friend to RuPaul, Lady Bunny. We pick up right where we left off. Lady Bunny is very open when chatting about the phenomenon that is her BFF’s RuPaul’s Drag Race. Bunny...

Jo De La Rosa, one of the OGs of the OC, steps Behind The Rope. Let us start at the beginning of it all, Season One, Episode One of The Real Housewives of Orange Country. Jo explains how she got cast in the freshman installment of the juggernaut franchise. The answer is not at all what you would expect. We talk about what filming was like for Jo, considering she had nothing to compare it to with T...

Odd Mom Out’s Sean Kleier steps Behind The Rope. Yes, Lex Von-Weber from Bravo’s classic scripted series Odd Mom Out. So many questions, so little time. Sean chats with us about how he originally met series creator Jill Kargman. Based on her book Momzillas, Odd Mom out chronicled the wealthy mommy clique that resides in New York’s prestigious Upper East Side. Sean explains the casting process, wha...

Below Deck’s Bruno Duarte steps back Behind The Rope. For everyone who has not heard Part I of our sit down (Air Date December 7th, 2020), Bruno DOES - NOT - HOLD - BACK in discussing what it was like to film with and work with Kate Chastain and Captain Lee. Hint, not great. He talks about how they were on camera as well as how they were completely different off camera. No detail is spared. That c...

Fashion Runway’s Suede steps Behind The Rope. Yup, fan favorite, blue haired, likes to refer to himself in the third person, Suede. Checking in from his home in Ohio where he is now a successful Real Estate Broker, Suede is here to tell it all. Born Stephen Whitney Baum, Suede was a name that started in college at Kent State and, well, just stuck (full story inside with how the name came about). A...

Jenny Hutt steps Behind The Rope. Let us start at the beginning. Jenny was born in Roslyn, Long Island to Charles & Bunny Koppelman. A “big wig” in the record industry, her Dad knew them all. By all, we mean he worked with the likes of Barbara Streisand, Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Vanilla Ice. Jenny grew up going on vacations with Barbara Streisand and “hanging out” with Dolly Parton....

The OG of the OC Miss Vicki Gunvalson steps Behind The Rope. First Vicki fills us all in on what she has been up to since we last saw her on our TV screens. For those of you who don’t know, she bought a house in Mexico, had a stellar Whoop It Up Podcast (which BTVR appeared on), has been running Coto Insurance, and has just been enjoying time with her family (Steve, Michael, Brianna, Ryan & The Bo...

Julie Goldman and Brandy Howard from Bravo’s The People’s Couch step back Behind The Rope (Part I of our sit down aired December 8, 2020 - feel free to check it out). Julie and Brandy get right into it. They talk about how they went from being cast members on The People Couch to official hosts of The Vanderpump Rules After Show. Of course we needed all the details on the many Pump Rules guests on...